Alex Wiegmann
Philosopher/Cognitive Scientist at University of Granada (previously RUB). Interested in moral judgments, deceptive communication, AI, open science and stuff.
- Today (Thursday), 4pm CET
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- To celebrate the launch of the xphi-journal and kick-off our talk series, we are happy to invite everyone to this talk by Edouard Machery. ruhr-uni-bochum.zoom-x.de/j/6780355881...
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- @louisareins.bsky.social and I started this project shortly before my nephew was born - he will start school soon. The drinks were consumed during the revisions. Link to paper (let me know if you don't have access), summary and preprint below. With S. Orr, M. Mizumoto, A. Erut & Q. Li.
- Summary and preprint: bsky.app/profile/alex... Paper: awspntest.apa.org/record/2026-...
- 🚨Publication Alert🚨 “Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?” 5 years in the making ~ 5000 participants 10 countries 6 languages Forthcoming in American Psychologist With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr. Short thread and preprint below
- Reposted by Alex WiegmannThe journal's homepage is now live: journals.ub.uni-koeln.de/index.php/xphi We will soon also be found under xphi.eu. Accepting submissions in about 2 weeks.
- Today, 18:00 CET. Please share.
- Tomorrow! Thursday 30th, at 10:00 PDT / 18:00 CET "Philosophical arguments can boost charitable giving" by Kristan Brodie and @eschwitz.bsky.social. First talk of the @xphijournal.bsky.social series, organized by @alexwiegmann.bsky.social and Celso Vieira. philevents.org/event/show/1...
- The new journal "Experimental Philosophy" is now on BlueSky. @xphijournal.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/xphi... Please share!
- Reposted by Alex WiegmannAn awesome conference online organized by the moral psychology research group! With the first Stich Award to honor my mentor Steve Stich. Paul bloom is the awardee.
- 🚨Publication Alert🚨 “Are the concepts of truth and lying shared across cultures?” 5 years in the making ~ 5000 participants 10 countries 6 languages Forthcoming in American Psychologist With @louisareins.bsky.social, . Mizumoto, A. Erut, Q. Li, and S. Orr. Short thread and preprint below
- In our main experiment, we presented participants from ten countries (Chile, China, Germany, Israel, Japan, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, UK, US) with ten cases of deceptive implicatures (DIs). DIs are literally true but can nevertheless trick the hearer into a false belief.
- In one condition, we asked whether the speaker lied, in another whether what s/he said was true or false. Although DIs can be considered borderline cases (true on the explicit level, false on the implicit level), we found a high degree of similarity between the ten countries.
- Moreover, lie and falsity attributions correlated strongly in our between-subjects design. In a follow-up experiment (in only three countries), we found this strong correlation also with a within-subject design design. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...
- Reposted by Alex Wiegmannatest papers: Somogy Varga, Andrew J. Latham & Edouard Machery investigate the influence of evaluative judgments, specifically regarding an individual’s moral character, on judgments of health and disease in this #openaccess paper
- Looks like a great (and free) introduction to philosophy! philpapers.org/rec/HORAPA-2
- Happy to have played a small role in this project (which will be continued)
- Got a shameless review invitation today: "As the reviewer, you should hold a PhD degree and publish 3-5 papers in the field of the manuscript. If you meet the requirements and would like to review this manuscript within 1 week, please send a short CV [1/2]
- and several keywords to describe your research interest to us. After we check it, we will add you to the system."
- Want to try out an agent AI (can click on things, fill out forms, collect info from websites and much more), here you get 500 free credits for ManusAI (and me, too. Link below) manus.im/invitation/1...
- Reposted by Alex WiegmannI’m looking for a postdoctoral scholar to join me in the Self & Society Laboratory at UC Riverside! Sharing would be much appreciated! aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF02104
- Randomly discovered that I have a signed book by Daniel Dennett 🤯 (the book was left, among others, in the office of a former colleague)
- Two points of our motivation: 1. Reclaiming the means of production 😉 (scientists doing the work, whereas publishers making the money by charging the people whose taxes are used to pay the scientists does not seem right)
- 2. Experimental philosophers often have to compromise: Publishing in empirical journal often means to cut the philosophical aspects, while publishing in philosophy often comes with cuts regarding the empirical aspects
- We are very grateful to the “Fachinformationsdienst Philosophie” who provides the hosting environment and helps to get the whole thing starting. We hope this and similar initiatives will become popular soon.
- 🔥Exciting news in experimental philosophy🔥 Very happy to announce that there will be soon a new journal named “Experimental Philosophy”. It will be open access, free of charge for authors and follow all Open Science principles. Editors and Editorial Board below. More information coming soon...
- Editors: Ivar Hannikainen Alex Wiegmann Pascale Willemsen Editorial Board: A. Alexandrova @annaalexandrova.bsky.social J. Horvath J. Knobe @xphilosopher.bsky.social E. Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social I. Stojanovic @isidorastojanovic.bsky.social J. Weinberg @jonathanweinberg.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Alex WiegmannWissenschaftler:innen fordern mehr Klima-Engagement von Politik - noch bis Donnerstag 10 Uhr mitzeichnen! de.scientists4future.org/unterschrift...
- Omg, I feel you, 100%! academic.oup.com/brain/articl...
- Certain scenarios pose significant challenges when it comes to moral evaluation. However, one country attacking another, innocent nation does not fall into this category.
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- 🚨paper alert🚨 with Emanuel Viebahn Can you lie with pictures? Some (says-based) theories deny this possibility but lay people clearly think you can lie with pictures – and in at least three different ways. Forthcoming in AJP. Short thread with link to paper below.
- Preprint: osf.io/preprints/os... Experimental setting: Two persons communicate via a messenger. A wants to buy a used bike from B and asks whether it is scratch-free. The bike has a scratch. B replies with a picture of the bike.
- Three candidates for lying with pictures: 1. Content lie: Manipulation of the picture (removing the scratch via Photoshop) 2. Target lie: Picture is not manipulated, but taken when there was no scratch yet 3. Misleading: The picture shows the side of the bike without the scratch
- Lay people clearly think you can lie with pictures in form of a Content lie and a Target lie, and also tend to agree that deceiving in form of 3. constitutes lying.
- ❤️Finally❤️ Short thread with more info @neeleengelmann.bsky.social @narsimarsi.bsky.social @louisareins.bsky.social
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- After more than 80 EXTRA talks, the series comes to an (happy) end this Wednesday 🥲 Everyone welcome, just send me a DM/Email.
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- xphi-Europe 2025 conference t.co/WHQDnIlgT2
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- Wednesday, 13th November, 16:30 – 18:00 (German Time), changed to online only. If you like to join, just send me an email or DM.
- Final proofs submitted...
